I'm considering doing this but want to know first if it actually works. Has anyone succeeding in quitting by this method? How long does it take? Do the cravings stop altogether afterwards, or do you still need some decent willpower? Has anyone tried this and failed?
2006-09-14 06:48:20 · 15 answers · asked by louisewoods1984 4 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
It is like hypnotherapy for anything, for some people it works but for some people it doesn't. It's the same with using hypnotherapy for anything, my mother swears by this means of therapy and it helped her a lot getting over depression, gaining self-confidence and dieting, but it does not work at all for me it seems.
I think it also helps to know who you are going to, I know locally the best around works for the NHS and charges around £300 with a money back guarantee, if you are going to go this route then I'd try to find someone like this where you live.
I have known people who have used this, I was going to try it myself, however on researching hypnotherapy for quitting smoking I came across Easyway – someone suggested it to me, as it only cost me £5 for the book I figured I'd try this first – so I will pass on the favour someone passed onto me when I was looking at 'unconventional' ways to quit smoking…
…try Easyway, Easyway site - http://www.allencarr.com
The book only costs around £5 from Amazon, the book also gives you money off going to their clinics, their clinics then also offer a money back guarantee if they cannot cure you of smoking – they have over 90% success rate. I've not known anyone quit smoking as successfully, easily and happily as from using Easyway, I know far more people who have quit and stayed non-smokers this way than any other way, oh and they didn't need willpower all it took for them to quit with Easyway was reading one book.
2006-09-14 07:54:19 · answer #1 · answered by Kasha 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-17 04:52:01 · answer #2 · answered by Clararose 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tried and failed but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work. Before you go you have to really want to stop and be prepared for stopping (that definitely doesn't mean lots of nicotine replacements - they just make money for the companys that sell them). I also think that all hypnotherapists are different. The particluar one that I had tried to convince me that nicotine itself isn't addictive but that smokers are addicted to a certain breathing style that follows the inhalation of a much craved cigarette.
I think that hypnotherapy might work, together with a lot of will power and the decision that you will never smoke again. If this is 'just a break from smoking' you are not stopping anything.
2006-09-14 07:29:55 · answer #3 · answered by AlfieCo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the only way to quit is to first, want it realy bad, second, a real strong mind. Without the willpower, you can spend all your money into adds that promise you an easy way out of smoking, but out of my own experience, lack of willpower made me fall back anyways! I've tried it all, hypno,acupuncture, gum, you name it I've tried it! But as to making it less difficult for you if you have your mind strongly set to it, it's ofcourse worth it, but you have to believe those alternatives work, otherwise it might still be a waste of money! GOOD LUCK
2006-09-14 07:08:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it can - I have known some people who have sworn it helped, but some others have said it failed for them - You pays your money and takes your chances.
The real guaranteed method to stop is for you yourself to really want to stop AND MEAN IT and to be strong willed enough to do it - For more than 35 years I smoked between 50 and 60 a day until I decided firmly and positively it was not doing me any good, I couldn't afford it, I was objectionable to other people who moved away from my smelling clothes, to the nicotine fingers, and the discolouration of the paintwork and soft furnishings in our home.
10 years ago I said I will stop and I MEANT IT and haven't smoked since - I am happier, wealthier, have more friends, and the best of health and I am 72 !!
2006-09-14 07:05:21 · answer #5 · answered by Barry G 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Im a smoker and have never tried it but I have known of 3 people who have. 2 were successful but the other stopped for about 2 years then started again.
Its like anything else, if you really want to stop it will help but you have to want to stop in the first place.
2006-09-14 22:02:32 · answer #6 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my mom tried it and it didn't work and she and the guy that did it both agreed it was because she didn't have the willpower...I do know someone who used a spray on their tongue before they craved a cig and it put them off smoking all together...also a lot cheaper than hypnotherapy!
2006-09-14 06:51:18 · answer #7 · answered by pink_fluffy_mushroom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's awesome Berry!
My husband and I tried it and it worked for 2 weeks. When we lost his mother, we were stressed and tempted to smoke and did.
Berry said it though. It's all about wanting NOT to more badly than wanting to. My sister quit by convincing herself, much like Berry, that she didn't want to anymore.... that's all "will-power" is about.
Addiction is more a mental than physical...
Did you know it only takes around two weeks to get the physical addiction of nicotine out of your system... the rest is mental? You can have your lungs and heart back to normal in a year by quitting!
GOOD LUCK!
2006-09-14 08:23:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It did not work for me
The main problem is that you still need willpower to succeed and you cannot get that from anywhere but yourself.
Are you really ready to quit?
2006-09-14 12:42:57 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It worked for me but I still needed lots of willpower as my ex repeatedly blew smoke on me.
He was jealous because he couldn't stop, 3 mths later we started divorce proceedings which was very stressful.
shortly after my mother died, twelve months later my teenage son died but I didn't start again.
I had smoked for 30 years.
2006-09-14 09:04:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋